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The Crusade in the Fifteenth Century - Converging and competing cultures (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Crusade in the Fifteenth Century - Converging and competing cultures (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Crusades - Subsidia
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Increasingly, historians acknowledge the significance of crusading
activity in the fifteenth century, and they have started to explore
the different ways in which it shaped contemporary European
society. Just as important, however, was the range of interactions
which took place between the three faith communities which were
most affected by crusade, namely the Catholic and Orthodox worlds,
and the adherents of Islam. Discussion of these interactions forms
the theme of this book. Two essays consider the impact of the fall
of Constantinople in 1453 on the conquering Ottomans and the
conquered Byzantines. The next group of essays reviews different
aspects of the crusading response to the Turks, ranging from
Emperor Sigismund to Papal legates. The third set of contributions
considers diplomatic and cultural interactions between Islam and
Christianity, including attempts made to forge alliances of
Christian and Muslim powers against the Ottomans. Last, a set of
essays looks at what was arguably the most complex region of all
for inter-faith relations, the Balkans, exploring the influence of
crusading ideas in the eastern Adriatic, Bosnia and Romania. Viewed
overall, this collection of essays makes a powerful contribution to
breaking down the old and discredited view of monolithic and
mutually exclusive "fortresses of faith". Nobody would question the
extent and intensity of religious violence in fifteenth-century
Europe, but this volume demonstrates that it was played out within
a setting of turbulent diversity. Religious and ethnic identities
were volatile, allegiances negotiable, and diplomacy, ideological
exchange and human contact were constantly in operation between the
period's major religious groupings.
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